Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Displaced Iraqis Have Better Voting Opportunities Than Displaced Katrina Victims

Think Progress:
"In response, local leaders have wondered why Iraqis living in the U.S. were given this right, yet African-Americans are not. “[Louisiana] had all kinds of excuses why that couldn’t happen,” New Orleans City Council President Oliver M. Thomas Jr. said. “But the Iraqi people voted [at satellite offices]. Why can’t we do that for all of our voters?“"

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